planning a July trip to London, England, to celebrate the wedding of Catherine Cantwell ’08. Ben Snydacker and Caitlin Bannon Snydacker welcomed a baby boy, Samuel, on August 6.


Brooklyn sound designer Jesse Flower- Ambroch partnered with actor-writer Jamie Peterson to produce a video that was part of Peterson’s one-man play, Watch Me Fall Apart, staged at the Incubator Arts Project in NYC last year. Jesse and Jamie have been fine-tuning the video, with hopes of a Los Angeles pre- miere. Jesse directed and edited it; pho- tographer-filmmaker Simon Biswas man- aged the color grading.


After completing a PhD in sport and exercise psychology, Ian Connole did a brief stint at Colgate University before being recruited for his dream job: director of sport psychology at Kansas State University’s athletics department. Now in his second year at KSU, Ian works with varsity athletes to enhance their perform- ance and well-being. After graduation, Jocelyn Polen moved to Germany, eventually settling in Berlin, where she completed a master’s in com- parative literature. She has done every- thing from farming to freelance writing (including for Exberliner magazine) to translating from German to English, which she now does full-time. Jocelyn is also mom to 6-month-old Adelaide. She and her partner, fellow translator Alex Gibert, traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to escape the direst part of winter. ALEXANDRA RAVENER FEIGMAN 38 BUCKEYE ROAD GLEN COVE, NY 11542-4127 AFEIGMAN@GMAIL.COM


and Alli Feigen Leake served as brides- maids. Casey Keeler, Annie Gayner, Taylor Leake and Mike Haftel were also on hand. The couple lives in Chicago, where Molly coordinates special educa- tion at Waukegan High School. James Cunningham is a US Senate intern in Washington, D.C. He spent Christmas vacation in Hawaii. Alexander Eaton and Julianna Orgel


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’08 were married in NYC last year, with a wedding party that included Erica Mackoul ’08, Emilie Kershaw ’08, Samuel Michelson, Matthew Orlansky, James Moran, and Joseph Ferdinand. Julianna is an intellectual-property attor- ney in White Plains, N.Y. Alexander is studying at New York Law School, where


Molly Lemire married Preston Lange on June 21. Robin Hass


he is a member of the Law Review and the dispute resolution team. On June 28, 2014, Jacquelyn O’Connor wed John Heney, whom she had dated throughout her time at Skidmore. Two days after returning from a honeymoon in Bermuda, she accepted a position teaching special education for the East Williston School District in Long Island, N.Y., where she had been a teaching assis- tant for the previous five years. She loves her new job. Coincidentally, the district superintendent is Elaine Kanas ’73. Ashley Halsey moved from NYC, where she was doing children’s book design, to Portland, Maine, to start her own free- lance design and illustration business. Eric Lampman is a research and devel- opment manager at Lake Champlain Chocolates in Burlington, Vt. I am an elementary-school speech and language pathologist and love my job. I am also the new bassist in the school’s staff band. We perform for the entire school, which the kids love. MEREDITH FREED 30 TURNOR AVENUE HAMDEN, CT 06517 FREED.MEREDITH@GMAIL.COM


their one-year anniversary. Married in NYC last year, their wedding party includ- ed Erica Mackoul, Emilie Kershaw, Samuel Michelson ’07, Matthew


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Julianna Orgel and Alexander Eaton ’07 recently celebrated


Orlansky ’07, James Moran ’07, and Joseph Ferdinand ’07. Julianna is an intellectual-property attorney in White Plains, N.Y. Alexander is studying at New York Law School, where he is a member of the Law Review and the dispute resolu- tion team.


Whitney Milton Cotton and husband Benjamin welcomed daughter Penelope in February 2014. Whitney is a senior field- nurse manager for United Healthcare. Kate Caulfield married Eli Slater in


Yarmouth, Maine, last summer. Skiddies present were Jessica Liebov, Elysse Nava, Sarah Kornblum, Alyssa Chrobuck ’09, Ray Sultan ’09, and Jason Sherwin ’09. Kate works at the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers at Phillips Andover Academy.


Jonathan Brestoff Parker is first author on a scholarly paper documenting research that he and other scientists have been conducting on obesity. Published in the prestigious journal Nature, it details findings that high levels of “white fat,” which is stored and difficult to break down, contribute to obesity, while “brown fat,” which can be more easily burned for energy, does not. Jon and colleagues iden- tified a “beiging” process that helps white fat become more like brown fat. An MD and PhD candidate at Penn, he is still col- laborating with Skidmore professor T. H. Reynolds on potential obesity treatments. Jon is a also a Skidmore trustee. After five years in the hospitality indus-


try in NYC, Lela Ilyinsky traveled through Asia and South America for a year, finally landing in Seattle, where she is training as a yoga instructor. Jessica Dunham is director of communi-


cations for the Invest in Others founda- tion, which encourages, recognizes, and supports the philanthropic activities of financial advisors. She earned a master’s in history from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and was set to complete an MBA from Bentley University this May. Simon Gunner is a botanist at Olofson Environmental in the San Francisco Bay area. Ryan Greer is co-founder of online chil- dren’s book retailer BookBugs (bookbugs.net), a for-profit that donates one of out of every three books sold to nonprofit agencies helping underprivi- leged kids learn to read. Ryan, who serves as CEO and director of social impact, says the business model allows consumers to invest in their communities in a mean- ingful way while helping agencies, such as the Compass Youth Collaborative, dis- tribute new books selected specifically for their students. A former federal govern-


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